Pringle Bay

How time passes. I tried to post a few weeks ago but there was something wrong with the net / computer and it wouldn't save the photos. Anyway things have moved along quite rapidly since then. Despite having someone sick every week for the last six weeks we have had two weekends away (Cedarburg and Pringle Bay) Hannah's birthday (a great success and the first birthday I can honestly say she really enjoyed every minute rather than just the last half an hour), decided to homeschool, been to two homeschooling events and ordered next years stuff, decided to move to Pringle Bay and hopefully found our new home, lost R300k on the stock market, Simon has been to CHina, got a new cat and I can't remember what else. Oh and we celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary on Sunday and had two great nights out at Die Boer (Candy Kayne top US blues act was excellent) and then the blues night at Bloemendal for the Sauvignon weekend. Gosh we have been busy. Oh and I forgot the Valmary Park golf day on the 18th September - the day it poured all day and myself and a couple of our emloyees stood atop a large mound exposed to the elements for a large part of the day until it was so wet on the greens that it was no longer possible to hit the ball let alone get it in a hole!

The main news I guess is the fact that we have decided to move to Pringle Bay. Made possible by our decision to homeschool and Simons work being commutable from there. Made desirable because of my inability to come to terms with the level of crime in Durbanville and my wish to feel more secure for the kids. Added to that of course is the bonus that we'll be just 600 metres from the beach and living in a protected Biosphere reserve. We are going to rent out our house just in case it all becomes to much like hard work, lonely, far away whatever...

Here is a couple of pics of our new house (we hope). Offer has been accepted so failing disaterous survey or other major problem we should be in and settled by the end of this year. Pretty scary thought for a brit. We usually have a good few months before we become absolutelly committed and then another couple of months to get used to the idea. You can find more pictures (dont do the place justice) on the seeff website just go to http://www.seeff.com/searchresults/property.asp?web_reference=79789&areaId=1102&actionId=2&categoryId=1&curpage=3

here are a couple of the pics I took

this will be our bedroom - not a good shot really

This will be our teacher room - its a whopping 8 metres by 5 with windows on every wall - my favourite room in the house. The guy is an artist and this is the room he uses for his studio

And this photo gives you a sense of the style of the house lots of arches and curves - there is even a spiral staircase - hannah thinks its a cinderella tower.

for some reason the computer won't let me add any more photos so I'll just post this in case I lose it again and don't get on for another month